· Middlesex. by Jeffrey Eugenides pp, Bloomsbury, £ Gore Vidal once joked that the advantage of bisexuality was that it doubled your chances of Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. · W hen Jeffrey Eugenides came to the Guardian book club to discuss his novel Middlesex, there was admiration of the fact that such a sophisticated book, Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Middlesex Summary. Cal/lie Stephanides was first born as a girl in Detroit in , and then born again as a teenage boy in Petoskey, Michigan, in He is intersex, and is now 41 years old and living in Germany. He has decided to write his memoir after reading about .
Middlesex is a novel by American author Jeffrey Eugenides, loosely based on elements of the author's life and inspired by his Greek heritage. The protagonist is an intersex individual known as both Cal and Calliope whose life has been affected by a mutated gene that worked its way through three generations of their family's bloodline. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides - the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl. In the spring of , Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond. Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux to great acclaim in , and he has received numerous awards for his work.
Middlesex is Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer-winning novel about Cal, the intersex protagonist who uncovers a guilty family secret and an astonishing genetic history as he comes of age.,Explore a character analysis of Cal/Calliope, plot summary, and important quotes. Eugenides has always been very good at handling his characters with care but in Middlesex there is an added level of gentleness and sensitivity. Eugenides never passes judgment but rather lets the reader delve deeply into the motivations and rationale of each character so even if you do not understand why a decision was made you have an understanding of how a decision was made. Middlesex is a novel by American author Jeffrey Eugenides, loosely based on elements of the author’s life and inspired by his Greek heritage. The protagonist is an intersex individual known as both Cal and Calliope whose life has been affected by a mutated gene that worked its way through three generations of their family’s bloodline.
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